Opposition MPs are again asking why expelled Chinese diplomat Zhao Wei wasn’t sent packing sooner, given new revelations that the federal government knew for several years he was spying on Chinese dissidents in Canada, on top of targeting Conservative MP Michael Chong.
“For three years, this government knew that a diplomat in Beijing’s Toronto consulate was spying on Chinese Canadians and sending information back to Beijing’s secret police,” Conservative MP Michael Cooper said in the House of Commons on May 12.
Earlier that day, The Globe and Mail reported that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has a “significant counterintelligence file” on Zhao, a consular officer who was involved in spying on various Chinese communities in Canada….